I've spent a good amount of time thinking about Phil lately, especially since we're now celebrating his 75th birthday. Simultaneously, I came across a Venn diagram that made me chuckle. The timing and coincidence was worthy of a blog post to pay tribute to, and poke a little fun at, one of my great musical...

Who are the buzziest of buzz bands? Let's use this handy Venn Diagram courtesy of SPIN magazine to help us determine.They've taken the three of the biggest festivals -- one each from East, Central and West regions -- and conveniently demonstrated the overlap (and exclusives). I'd love to see this get redone once...

Vinyl has made an obvious comeback in recent years, and sales of vinyl LPs are up 49% this year, according to a recent report by the Wall Street Journal.Despite the steady increase in sales, few are investing in the industry and factories responsible for the pressing of old-fashioned vinyl records are struggling to meet demand....

So Many Roads is an academic symposium held at San Jose State University that focuses on Grateful Dead phenomemon.As you might expect, there's some data driven research as well.Had to share this one that popped up on my Twitter feed via Jesse Jarnow (@bourgwick), who attended the conference and shared a picture of...

Lollapalooza has experienced huge growth since its incarnation as a touring festival in 1991. As the festival settled solely in Chicago in 2005, the costs of touring were no longer an issue, allowing the curators to schedule more artists. With an increased number of artists came a more diverse range of musical genres.Chicago Tribune recently assembled...

There seems to be no end to creative use of GIFs, but this Tumblr page takes it to a new level -- animating classic album covers.Clearly he is a fan of metal and hard rock, but JB also nails some of the classics, bringing motion and life to album artwork in incredibly creative ways....

What I think I know about Beats headphones:1. They don't sound good. They produce too much bass. True audiophiles look down on them.2. Their original guts were engineered by Monster, a consumer products company built on deceiving its customers. They have since moved on.3. Their leadership team decided to branch out into streaming audio, purchasing...

Huge props to phish.net, producing a venn diagram that make me proud.

Office drones, students, business people have you ever had to do a SWOT Analysis? For those blissfully unaware, a SWOT structured breakdown of t as a business project or idea's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats and is often used to boil down rigorous research into in a four quadrant graph.Now that we're all up...

I've looked at some of my favorite album cover art so many times, I tend to think of it as divorced from greater context, that the images aren't actual photos of real places.But indeed they are! In fact, many of them have been cataloged by Google's cameras using it's Street View feature. So, of...